October 5, 2012

Colour choice by people

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Two more colour links for your weekend:

  • the XKCD colour survey has colour names based on more than 200,000 user sessions and five million submitted names. (this is barney purple and this is mahogany)
  • Crowdflower has a multilingual version, though with a much smaller sample size (via)
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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »